ANOTHER BROKEN HILL

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2435, 18 February 1888, Page 2

ANOTHER BROKEN HILL

A well-known* half-caste named James Ransfield came into Cambridge yesterday (Friday) afternoon with several specimens of stone that appeal' Vi he strongly impreguated with silver that lie had found while prospecting in the Maungatautari Range. The stone is a. species of bluish granite and the metal is plainly visible to the naked eye. Both Mr Sargent the jeweller, and Mr Ward the chemist, think it is silver and the latter has a piece of thestone to test. Ransfield had heated a portion of it in the firo, but the metal still remains visible. He is going to send specimens to the School of Mines at the Thames to be tested. If it should prove to be silver, it will be another Broken Hill as lie reports the stone to be 18 feet thick, and extending a considerable distance, the granite isjtraversed by numerous small vftinsof quartz and also by one big one ten inches thick Underneath the granite is another vein of quartz, from which ho also brought specimens, and in which the metal could be seen with the aid of a strong glass. Underneath that is a bed of slate. These are the most genuine specimens that wo have yet seen, and if the metal proves to be silver we shall soon have a rush. The find is on Maori ground, on the Kihikihi-Waotu side of the mountain. Ransfield has gone up again to bring down a further supply of the stone.